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Bill Radke

Host

About

Bill hosts Week In Review.

Before that, he created and hosted the NPR humor show Rewind and hosted the Marketplace Morning Report, covering the day's national/international business news.

He's been a KUOW reporter, news director, and interview host; also, a stand-up comedian and Seattle P-I newspaper columnist.

Location: Seattle

Languages: English

Pronouns: he/him

Podcasts

Stories

  • Week In Review: free lunch, waste, and shaky finances

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with The Stranger news editor Vivian McCall, writer at the Washington Observer Jonathan Martin, and Seattle Times editorial board editor Alex Fryer.

  • Week in Review: shelter, libraries, and gas prices

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Reporter and writer Lauryn Bray, Seattle Times City Hall reporter David Kroman, and Washington Policy Center Senior Researcher Paul Guppy.

  • Week in Review: income tax, jobs, and gambling

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with Seattle Times editorial board member and columnist, author of Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care, Claudia Rowe, Seattle Channel host and producer, co-host of Seattle News, Views and Brews podcast Brian Callanan, and Washington Policy Center Vice President for Research Todd Myers.

  • Week in Review bonus episode: a conversation with Matthew Avery Sutton

    In this bonus episode, Bill Radke interviews the author of a new book about the influence of religion in this country, Matthew Avery Sutton. The book is called Chosen Land: How Christianity Made America and Americans Remade Christianity. The event was presented on March 15th, 2026, by Town Hall Seattle.

  • Week in Review: light rail, Sonics, and surveillance

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with retired KIRO Radio broadcaster Dave Ross, KUOW Soundside host, co-host of Sound Politics podcast Libby Denkmann, and co-founder and publisher of PubliCola, co-host of Seattle Nice podcast Erica Barnett.

  • Week in Review: surveillance cameras, new laws, and polyamory

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with KUOW politics reporter, co-host of Sound Politics podcast Scott Greenstone,  Executive Director of ZEV Co-op, actor, former Seattle mayoral candidate Ry Armstrong, and lawyer and former Seattle City Attorney Ann Davison.

  • Week in Review: shelters, taxes, and Starbucks

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with The Stranger Editor-in-Chief Hannah Murphy Winter, political analyst and contributing columnist Joni Balter, and Seattle Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Joe Nguyen.

  • Week in Review: sports, Bill Gates, and taxes

    Host Bill Radke discusses the week’s news with co-host of Too Beautiful to Live podcast, Andrew Walsh, writer, Senior Manager in tech, and former Seattle City Council candidate, Heidi Stuber, and writer for the Washington Observer, Jonathan Martin.